Unit 1 That must be a record
Goals:
Talk about records, adventures and hobbies Practise measuring and comparing
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The First Period Listening & Speaking
Teaching goals:
1. Target Language
a. key words: beard, voyager, tight, tightrope, edition, moustache
b. daily English
Practise expressing measuring and comparing.
2. Ability goals
Enable students to talk about records, adventures and hobbies.
Help them learn to express measuring and comparing.
Teaching important points:
Talk about records, adventures and hobbies.
Practise expressing measuring and comparing.
Learn to use some typical measurements.
Teaching difficult points:
How to use measurements correctly.
Teaching methods:
discussing (cooperative learning), listening, speaking
Teaching aids: a tape recorder, a projector and a computer
Teaching procedures:
Step I Lead-in
As most of the Senior Grade III students start school in August, the weather must be very hot. The
teacher may start the class with the following question. “What is the highest temperature recorded
this summer?” Then lead students to do the quiz about the amazing facts on Page1.
T: Good morning/ afternoon, everyone!
Ss: Good morning/ afternoon, Mr. / Ms…
T: It is very hot, what is the temperature?
S1: It is reported the highest temperature is 35°C.
T: Is it the hottest day recoded this summer?
S2: I don’t think so. It was much hotter on July 26. The temperature was 37°C on that day.
T: Good. I’m very glad you are careful about this. But do you know the lowest temperature recorded on earth?
(Show the questions on Page 1on the PowerPoint.) Please work in groups and try to find the
amazing facts.
Step II Warming up
Students will work in groups to decide the answers. Whether they can guess the answers or not is
not important. The aim of this quiz is to stimulate their interest. Two minutes later show the answers
on the PowerPoint. ( Suggested answers: BBAABB )
T: Ok. It doesn’t matter whether you guessed the answers or not. How do you find the questions?
Ss: Very interesting.
T: Do you know where to find the answers to such interesting questions?
Ss: The Guinness Book of World Records.
T: Yes, it is a book contains records of all kinds. After class please find more information in the book
in the library. In this class we are going to practise measuring and comparing. First look at some
typical measurements. Ok, please read after me.
Show the following on the PowerPoint. (m = meters cm = centimeters h = hours)
Height of people (When referring to people, “tall” is used, not” high”, and measurements are
given in feet and inches (but not yards) or meters and centimeters.
She is about 5 foot 6 tall. The world’s tallest man is 2.55 m.
Speed A speed limit of 30 mph
Sound travels 186,300 miles in a second
Measurement of Temperature
The normal temperature of the human body is 37°C
The lowest temperature ever recorded on earth is -89.2°C
Step III Listening
In this procedure, students will hear someone talk about the size and the speed of humans and
animals. The purpose of the exercise is to practise measuring and comparing. Before listening,
students will discuss the three questions in groups.
T: Are you familiar with the measurements?
Ss: Yes.
T: Ok. How tall are you. Wang Fei?
S1: I’m 175cms.
T: Then who is the tallest in your class?
Ss: Li Lei and he is 184cms tall.
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